英和和英

語源

counter- +‎ swear

動詞

counterswear (三人称単数 現在形 counterswears, 現在分詞 counterswearing, 過去形 counterswore, 過去分詞 countersworn)

1. (transitive) To swear against; to take one's oath against.
   • 1926, Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages (volume 2, page 374)

     If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore.

   • 2011, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion (page 190)

     One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn.